In my years of research, I have discovered that the answer to making a passive income online is affiliate marketing.

According to Wikipedia, affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.

Soon after, I was introduced to the Wealthy Affiliate platform. I joined WA the same day I was introduced to it, and began taking their training.

Wow! I am excited to share with you my review.

This blog post is my personal experience with WA, and why I know, you are going to benefit from this platform.

THE BEGINNING OF WA

Back in 2005, Kyle and Carson, two Canadian kids, created Wealthy Affiliate.

They began a company with a keyword database, selling hot keywords purchased for pay-per-click campaigns.

Kyle and Carson had already experienced success online, but they had a great vision to build a website that would teach other people their business model.

Wealthy Affiliate evolved into an internet portal where people could join and learn the world of affiliate marketing. As more and more people joined WA, people raved about the relevant training and community that set WA apart from any other platform.

Kyle and Carson's vision was to make WA the best place for online marketing training, and Wealthy Affiliate has become that fourfold.

Today, Wealthy Affiliate has been around for over ten years and has helped people reach their goals ​of becoming financial independent and work from anywhere in the world.

Just a Thought:

Kyle and Carson had already built a successful business but wanted to create a platform that would help other people.

Wealthy Affiliate has been around for over ten years.

Wealthy Affiliate is the best place to learn about the world of affiliate marketing.

THE TRAINING

The core purpose of Wealthy Affiliate is training. When you sign-up as a starter member (which is free) you see that value right away.

I have tried several other tools over the years to help me learn and master affiliate marketing. In my experience, I found them all too complicated and ended up giving up.

I have been using Wealthy Affiliate for years now, and I must say, I am impressed with the educational aspect of the platform.

When you get rolling as a starter member (Did I mention that it's free?), they encourage you to start the courses right away.

The first level is called, "Online Entrepreneur Certification - Getting Started Level 1" and it has ten specific lessons (All Free):

Community Training

Another great feature within Wealthy Affiliate is the community training that is available. As people from all over the world build their niche websites; many of those people take time to teach others what they have learned.

If you are a premium member, and you have been a part of Wealthy Affiliate for over three months; you are able on Wealthy Affiliate to create tutorials, training videos or courses.

For example, if you want to learn how to change your theme on WordPress; there is a specific course created on Wealthy Affiliate that will walk you through the process step by step.

How cool is that? The community is another reason why Wealthy Affiliate has the best affiliate marketing training platform in the world.

THE TOOLS

Some great tools within Wealthy Affiliate will help you run your business. Every type of business needs the right tools to be successful; an online business is no exception to that rule.​

Web Development

If you're like me (hopefully you're not), but if you are, you don't know a lot about getting a website off the ground. What about the in's and out's of S..E.O. (Search engine Optimization)? Do you know how to secure your site with an SSL certificate? Most people don't have a clue how to accomplish these tasks.

Site Rubix, that's part of the Wealthy Affiliate platform, is very impressive. You can build 50 professional WordPress websites (in the free version you can create 2 - one is enough to begin), hosted and secure, without any extra charge.

Domains, SSL, and more . . .

If you have ever purchased a domain name in the past, you are familiar with all the upsells a company tags onto your purchase. It can get out of hand!

When you purchase a domain name with Wealthy Affiliate there are no upsells or hidden fee's - you get a secure domain name with all the bells and whistles for a great price.

Webpage Builder (SiteRubix)

With the SiteRubix builder, you can get a website live and functional within minutes.

Typically, when you install WordPress, it can be a bit intimidating. I mean, several steps have to be completed before your website is up and running. If you have never worked with WordPress, getting it set up can be overwhelming.

No worries. SiteRubix is here to save the day.

Build a website on an owned domain or with a free domain

Give your site a catchy name

Choose a great theme that matches your topic

Begin to build that web page out with content

Web Hosting

Wealthy Affiliate has some of the best web hosting in the world. They have set the industry standard for secure, reliable hosting.

Dealing with web hosts can be a pain in the butt. They are always trying to upsell you to something that you don't need. Who needs the hassle of that?

Wealthy Affiliate offers you the best features and has created a robust platform for hosting your online business.

I know that building an online business sounds intimidating. There are a lot of elements to building a business from scratch that you do not understand. No worries. I have you covered.

There is a host of people that are ready to help you succeed with your online business.

I'm here! Jay, or the Million Dollar Monkey. I'm always available to give you tips and pointers with this new venture. Whatever you need, I'm just a short message away.

Kyle and Carson, the co-founders of Wealthy Affiliate are always available for your questions and advise. They are great coaches that want you to be successful and has built this company with that single purpose in mind.

Great review. Wealthy Affiliate is so great. I am new to it, but am finding more and more that I love it. It has taught me so much already and I am looking forward to learning more about building my website and doing such. Reading your review made me so grateful that I joined as it seems you have had the same experience as me.

Jay,
I’ve been wanting to leave the 9-5 daily routine and have been looking online for a way to educate myself and start an online business for my hobby.
I have come across other site that have a promotion of wealthy affiliate but didn’t look into it too much.
One thing that would be a big plus for me would be the people or the members.
I see that they run a live chat, but can I get help from the chat room or is it just a hangout kind of place?
The reason I am considering this is the training you say they have. It seems quite complete if you sign up for the full plan.
In your opinion does it teach you everything you’d need to know or will I still be searching elsewhere?
Sorry about the questions, but its a big step and I want to make the right one.
I will check back before I decide to hear your take.
Doug

It taught me everything that I needed to know. I found the training was excellent. I had been through different affiliate training before, and WA is by far the best. With their training and Million Dollar Monkey on your side – you’ll find success. 😉

I have personal experience of Wealthy affiliate and are absolute agree with you. I had tested other things before (places and webinar etc) but this was new how realistic the training and ideology is in Wealthy affiliate. No promise about been billionaire in a week but told how things are, step by step training which works and a friendly atmosphere.
I tested other things first after it too, but find out it was a waste of time and money.
But are you agree with me that the community are incredible in Wealthy affiliate? People are quick to help and you see how to pay it forwards ideology are strong.